Antiwar demonstrations in S.F. and L.A. growing

It was only a few months ago that anti-war demonstrations were getting maybe a few hundred people.  Now it’s a few thousand, as witness the demos on Saturday in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

There will be major nationwide demonstrations October 6th, called by many groups, with Not In Our Name being the umbrella group.

I’ve spoken to not a few pople who are scared by the direction D.C. is taking but who are afraid to express their views, fearful of being tracked or something.  All I can say is - if not now, then when?

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Why Iraq and why now?

Nothing has changed in Iraq since ‘91 so why the rush to war?

Absolutely find who did 9/11. But Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.  No one has presented any information that he has.  Not a shred. 

The “Saddam may have nukes one day” is a giant red herring.  North Korea already has nukes. So does India. Neither are allies. Are we attacking them?  In fact, India is a major sponsor of organized terrorists in another country (the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka), so given Dubya’s lofty rhetoric, why aren’t we teaching India a lesson for Democracy?  A friend answered this by saying “Does India have oil”? and that indeed may be the correct answer.

Is the whole thing an oil grab/ an attempt to win the Nov elections/ because Jesus told me to? Probably all of these partly.  But something else is going on.  Some have suggested we fear the fall of the Saudi monarchy and want to be there to grab the oil when it does fall/we push it.  Others think it’s a chess game against China. Still others think Dubya and the genuine religious extremists around him view this as their personal Christian Duty. Please Jesus, save us from jihads emanating from the White House.

An Iraq war will lead to a hugely destabilized planet, to big chaos in the Middle East, to new terrorists, to the loss of allies we haven’t already lost (the EU is about to launch a huge trade war against the US).

Why do we have to do anything to Iraq now?  What changed?  What’s the rush?

Why Iraq and why now?

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Jesse Jackson: Bush Wants to ‘Rule the World’

Civil rights leaders, union laborers and peace activists joined Rev. Jesse Jackson in Washington, D.C. Friday as he railed against the Bush administration for wanting to “rule the world,” and former Attorney General Janet Reno for turning a deaf ear to their concerns.

Jackson warned that launching a war against Iraq would “destabilize the Persian Gulf; leave the whole world in danger and invite more violence here into our own country,” and he said any military effort waged against Iraq would be an attempt by the Bush administration to “rule the world.”
Jackson said he found it “ironic,” that in the aftermath of yet another fouled Florida election, Reno had finally come to the realization that voters’ rights needed to be protected.

“When she had the power, she would not protect our votes,” Jackson said. “Now, she needs the power with our votes.” Reno lost a narrow race for Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination Tuesday, but has yet to concede.

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